Fantastic Cat - The Very Best of Fantastic CatThey said it couldn't be done. Four different songwriters joining forces to form a single band? There was simply no precedent (outside of CSNY, The Beatles, The Traveling Wilburys, The Highwaymen, Monsters of Folk, etc). And yet Fantastic Cat did it anyway, defying the odds and teaming up to record their highly unanticipated debut, 'The Very Best Of Fantastic Cat.' Captured in the wilds of the Pocono Mountains, the album gleefully careens between

Biafra's one-off collaboration with Krist Novelselic and Kim Thayil)

43 opens with a grand introduction before launching into an Allegro of high contrasts

Nine Below Zero's current keyboardist Tom Monks brings some rockin piano to 'Rattlesnake'

It is not only for the pleasure of a "Bird Fancyer" at that time

native-born composers of instrumental music in the United States

or ténor léger - the program includes some fine excerpts from operas by Rameau

but his mastery of the Hopi long flute transports listeners to a spirit of place unlike any other

Mozart recognized the potential of the bassoon as a vehicle for expressing a wide range of moods and attitudes - from the joking and playful to the dreamily tuneful

" "Santa Claus is Coming to Town

brawny harmonica

Don't miss out on this wonderful volume

I think we finally have a successful distillation of all our seemingly disparate influences